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"At daylight the miserable man was carried to an oak..." from the series Searching for California Hang Trees

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Through meticulous research, Gonzales-Day documented approximately 350 lynching incidents that occurred in California between 1850 and 1935, most of which involved victims of Mexican descent. To create the series Searching for California Hang Trees, the artist visited many of these sites and captured the likeness of trees that may have borne witness to these events. Gonzales-Day’s landscapes unearth traces of this little-known history.Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
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Lightjet Print
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Gonzales Day, Ken
  2. Landscape
  3. Landscapes
  4. Tree
  5. Trees

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